How was the USA so effective at getting the working class to reject ideologies that promote active class struggle?
Retarded appeals to tradition, religion, and 'muh american values'.
By giving them higher standards of living than the countries that had pursued class struggle as a central political goal.
Poor quality of state sponsored education, and cultural focus on upwards class mobility combined with the other two replies.
>>796425
Because they already had great measure of freedom in stark contrast to aristocratic and feudal europe.
>>796431
This. Same way Britain and France did it, actually.
>>796425
Too much opportunity for upward mobility
>>796425
American culture is inherently violent and jingoistic and its politics are tightly controlled by its ruling class. The government assassinates/aids in the assassination of labor and civil rights leaders and groups, since it controls its media it casts them to their already under-educated masses as evil, and even if anyone cared no one can stop them.
>>796471
But if we're being honest, terms like "socialism" and "labor unions" don't arouse as much venom in Britain or France as they do in America.
"Every child has a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got"
Joel, B.
>>796425
just think Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
auto assembly line worker
had a house and car
had a pension
lived pretty comfortably
just needed guns to keep away multicultural elements
USA had good, strong unions until the late fifties, when corruption, cronyism and nepotism started taking control over the US, leaving a minority of wealthy businessmen (with money) and politicians (with power) in complete control over the country. Over some time, they stamped out unions through shitty legislation, propaganda and bribery. Leaving behind the system we have today, where poor people are fucked over for the benefit of their rich overlords
>>796425
>Muh soviet boogeyman
>Muh antiamerican values
>>796555
But how did they get poor people to like that situation so much, and hate unionizing with such vitriol?
Honestly it seems like the US was at its peak during its clash with communism but today with Globalization that wealth is beginning to be spread around especially in Asia.
>>796568
I remember my dad used to believe in buy American cars but eventually he got sick of replacing transmissions very 5 or 6 years and broke down and bought a Toyota
"fuck those assholes, they make shity cars" he said
the japs and chinks fucking killed manufacturing jobs in the US
>>796425
it wasn't. The US was one of the first country's to have a successful populist movement.
>>796425
They pointed out that quality of life for the average person was much higher under capitalism.
Because ideologies that promote active class struggle do not actually help the working class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3JrFXLrA0
>>796425
>MUH
>CLASS
Back to /leftypol/ with you. Shoo, shoo little spook.
Blood has almost always been thicker than either ink or water in the US when it comes to who one associates with because of all the Diversity™ present. Other countries used to be (;^)) pretty much 100% homogeneous and so there was very little opportunity or incentive to draw racial or ethnic lines. Of course this isn't an absolute rule, but it's generally fairly well observed.
>>796425
American working class has rarely had common interests...
>>796670
Russia definitely wasn't 100% homogeneous at all.
>>796555
Which explains why folks are so much poorer now than they were 60 years ago! Oh wait. Folks left unions out of their own volition, except for government employees.
>>796568
Unions started killing US manufacturing back in the 1980s as they lobbied for protectionist laws while raising salaries up to a mandated 80 USD an hour for basic assembly line jobs. That's why GM is getting its ass kicked by the US branches of foreign car companies and to a lesser extent Ford. Even though they pay their workers less, people buy their non-shit cars thus they stay in business and keep their workers employed.
>>796425
The gubbament didn't kill unions.
Globalism killed unions.
>>796659
Funny and convenient how everyone forgets that Venezuela had actual and worse food shortages during its military dictatorship days. Meanwhile, in post-Chavez Venezuela, it's an actual fact that the food shortage now is caused by food hoarding and selling it as contraband in countries like Colombia in an effort to get the popular support for the PSUV to turn towards the factually American backed coup liberals.
>>796815
First of all,it actually wasn't. There were Muslims, Finns, Ukrainians, Poles and many other ethnic and religious groups present in Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire_Census
Yes, I know it's fucking Wikipedia. Deal with it.
Secondly, it also didn't have a class struggle. Yes, there were plenty of blue-collar Bolsheviks - but the leaders of Bolshevism were (mostly Jewsh) intelligentsia and millions of Russians at all layers of the social strata died in the Civil War while fighting under the banner of the white armies. It was a political affair, not a class-based affair, despite how the Bolsheviks and their apologists have tried to spin it.
Because the US had higher class mobility than the rest of the industrialized world for quite some time, thanks to our abundant land and fewer cultural barriers to capital. Also because religious movements during industrialization/the second great awakening spread an early kind of prosperity gospel that said if you live a Christian life and worked hard that God would provide, and there was a bit of truth to it.
Also because the US working class has never faced starvation crises like those in old world countries have, and most radical movements foment after a period of scarcity.
>>796482
Nice troll
You ever live for a extended period of time in another country? When people talk politics they check to see if they know everyone in the room and trust them (for fear of repercussions). When people struggle and struggle and their highest ideal is own something of their own and they can't ( a vehicle, a business, a home). When they are afraid of being hauled away to jail or some other negative thing for having a different political or economic opinion.
You can talk bad about the US but as someone who has lived overseas for extended periods of time and lived as a "common" person. US freedoms and lifestyle beat pretty much everyone else's like a drum.
